Bug#482339: #482339: po-debconf: podebconf-report-po uses poor HELO hostname

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 17:18:32 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

[RFCs]
> This is muddy waters to me :) I udnerstand EHLO <fqdn> is recommended, 
> but the old syntax and semantics must also be supported.

Agreed, but in practice it seems a bit fragile :)
 
> > > Postfix configured to reject non-FQDN HELOs (which is a helpful
> > > anti-spam measure that stops quite a bit of bogus mail)
> > > therefore rejects the mail.
> If my reading of the above is right, this is not conformant to the 
> standard.

Right, but on the other hand using Sys::Hostname::Long and supplying
a FQDN seems cleaner in any case and doesn't hurt.
 
My suggestion is to make the suggested changes to
libmail-sendmail-perl (in fact I've just prepared a patch which kept
me from reading your mail in time :)).

Cheers,
gregor
 
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